Arnold Schwarzenegger, who also belongs to the Republican movement and was a former California governor, harshly criticized supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump, who violently stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 to try to boycott a joint House session. and Senate convened to authenticate Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
The famous star of the Terminator film saga stressed these criticisms of these facts with a deep and strong message she posted on her Instagram account.
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“As an immigrant in this country I would like to say a few words to my compatriots and our friends around the world about the events of the last few days. Cback in Austria, I am well aware of the night of the broken glass, this was a night of persecution and attack on Jews carried out in 1938 by the Nazi equivalent of the Proud Boys (American far right movement), Wednesday was the day of broken glass right here in the United States, “ emphasize Schwarzenegger.
He also commented that the attackers not only hurt the democracy of the United States, but “trampled on the principles on which this country was founded. I grew up in the ruins of a country that suffered the loss of I was born in 1947, two years after World War II, and as I grew up I was surrounded by broken men who drank guilt for their involvement in the most evil regime in history.Not all were angry, nor were they anti-Semitic or many Nazis simply followed this path step by step, “
While growing up, he was surrounded by broken men who drank the blame for their involvement in the most evil regime in history.
He in turn acknowledged that he shared this message, even though it meant a very painful memory for him. “Once a week my dad would come home drunk and I could yell, hit or scare my mom but I don’t take full responsibility because my neighbor did exactly the same thing with his family.”, Recalled the Hollywood star.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Edward Furlong in a scene from the 1991 film Terminator 2.
“I heard it with my own ears and I saw it with my own eyes, it was a great physical pain and a great emotional pain for what they saw or did, and it all started with lies and intolerance. Feeling from Europe I have witnessed first hand how things can get out of hand seen first hand (…) President Trump sought to annul the fair elections. He sought to impact by deceiving people with lies. My father and his neighbors were also deceived with lies and now I know where these lies can lead us, “ emphasize Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Scene of Conan the Barbarian, 1982 with Arnold Schwarzenegger,
In his video message he said Donald Trump is a failed leader and the worst president in the United States. “The best part is, soon he’ll be as irrelevant as an old tweet,” he added. In turn he recalled that patriotism meant supporting the country and not every president, referring to the words of President Theodore Roosevelt. While he stressed that it is necessary to have leaders with a spirit of service and that their country will find the light after this dark episode. One of the most shocking moments of his video was when he raised the sword he used in his film Conan the Barbarian.
My father and his neighbors were also deceived with lies and now I know where these lies can lead us,
“Now, this is what happens with swords: The more you temper a sword, the stronger it becomes. The more women hit it with a hammer and then heat it on the fire and then throw it into the cold water, and then you hit it again and submerge it in the fire and water several times, the stronger it becomes.I don’t tell you all this because you want to become an expert at creating swords.but our democracy is like the steel of this the more it is tempered, the stronger it becomes “, he explained excitedly, adding that what has happened in recent days will make Americans understand what they could lose.
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